Study: seven in 10 Nunavut families go hungry
Most Nunavummiut don’t get enough to eat, researchers who worked on the Qanuippitali health survey in Nunavut said at last week’s International Congress on Circumpolar Health in Yellowknife.
The percentage of Nunavummiut who experience a lack of food during the year is seven times higher than the national average, their survey found.
Of 1,038 randomly selected households, seven in 10 ran short of food and four in 10 experienced a “severe” lack of food over the course of a year.
Six in 10 households had hunters in their families and shared country food.
But many households had no regular source of country food and were obliged to rely on friends and family for country food supplies.
Lack of money stopped them from buying store-bought food, the survey found.
